Logan Pearsall Smith
English writer
Lived from: 1865 - 1946
Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: United Kingdom
Born: 18 october 1865 Died: 2 march 1946
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What pursuit is more elegant than that of collecting the ignominies of our nature and transfixing them for show, each on the bright pin of a polished phrase?
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What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?
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When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter.
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Whiskey has killed more men than bullets, but most men would rather be full of whiskey than bullets. What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers.
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We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stutter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.
― Logan Pearsall Smith
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